Agile transition and adoption human-related challenges and issues: A Grounded Theory approach

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Highlights:

• We conducted a large-scale empirical study to study Agile Transition Process (ATP).

• Grounded Theory (GT) has been employed as the best choice of research methodology.

• Theory of ATP and its various aspects including its challenges have been emerged.

• Data analysis led to emerge two main groups of ATP challenges and issues.

• The results also revealed the origin and roots of the challenges and issues.

摘要

•We conducted a large-scale empirical study to study Agile Transition Process (ATP).•Grounded Theory (GT) has been employed as the best choice of research methodology.•Theory of ATP and its various aspects including its challenges have been emerged.•Data analysis led to emerge two main groups of ATP challenges and issues.•The results also revealed the origin and roots of the challenges and issues.

论文关键词:Agile software development,Agile transition,Agile adoption,Agile transformation,Human-related challenges,Grounded Theory

论文评审过程:Received 8 August 2015, Revised 31 March 2016, Accepted 1 April 2016, Available online 8 April 2016, Version of Record 8 April 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.04.009